Remember David Duke and Oliver North who both managed to run as Republicans for some high office in some southern states? Clone those guys together with some ignoramus DNA and you get Louisiana Judge Keith Bardwell.

“It’s kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven’t done wrong,” Judge and justice of the peace Keith Bardwell told CNN affiliate WAFB on Saturday.

In 1883, the Supreme Court declared that states could ban mixed marriages, finding that this did not break the constitutional requirement to treat everybody equally, arguing that white people and black people were punished in equal measure for breaking the miscegenation laws. That ruling stood until the 1967 Loving case. Louisiana did not repeal its anti-miscegenation laws until it was forced to change by the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision.

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division seems to have an open and shut case in Judge Bardwell — The judge who openly admitted he will still refuse to grant a license or officiate an inter-racial marriage. He will not change his tune for CNN or anyone else.